City Council Republicans want to nix a popular bill that mandates public schools to provide translation services in nine languages.

Noting that the United Nations has just six official languages, council Minority Leader James Oddo said the measure goes too far.

The bill, known as the “Education Equity Act,” and opposed by the city Department of Education, would require schools to provide translators for languages including Bengali and Urdu for non-English-speaking parents.

“They call it the ‘Education Equity Act,’ I call it how to waste taxpayers’ money in nine languages,” said Oddo (R-S.I.).

The measure is estimated to cost upward of $20 million and has broad support among Democratic council members and immigrant-advocacy groups.

Hundreds of immigrant parents wearing wireless earpieces crowded the City Council chamber yesterday to listen to a translation of a debate on the bill.

The Department of Education already translates certain documents, such as school report cards and students’ individual education plans, into a limited number of languages.

But a $7.5 million expansion of the services announced this week would see that nearly all documents are translated into eight languages and that oral interpretations of policies are available by phone in 150 languages by the next school year.